Chapter 3: Independence Cold Autumn
Huang Yi is very busy, busy in order to be able to spend the night safely in the wilderness.
There are sheep here, and there will inevitably be large carnivores. In order to avoid becoming the dinner of large carnivores in your sleep, you must prepare.
It is important to avoid being surrounded by enemies on all sides. It is essential to lean on the high ground and choose the leeward south slope to dig a shallow cave that can just happen to hide your body. It does not need to be too big, which is equivalent to a cat's ear hole.
People hiding in the cat's ear hole are not only much warmer, but also better protected against wild beasts. Huang Yi believed that if a tiger attacked with his back to the cat's ear hole and wielded the engineer shovel, the tiger's body might be left behind.
Of course, this situation must be avoided as much as possible. Wild animals are afraid of fire. A fire should be lit at the entrance of the cave to keep it burning all night. There must be...
Huang Yi also had to dry the peeled sheepskin and put the whole sheepskin on the hay laid in the cat's ear hole. It would be more comfortable to sleep at night!
The mutton that cannot be eaten must not be discarded. Roast it dry or half-cook it and store it as dry food to prevent bad luck after leaving here, unable to catch prey and starving.
After an hour or two, Huang Yi, who had been grilling meat, felt a little tired.
"How big should this sheep be? Why is there still so much meat after roasting it for so long?"
Huang Yi thought for a while, it shouldn't be very big, it should be twenty or thirty pounds that he can easily lift with one hand!
"Eh! That's not right. That yellow sheep definitely looks like it weighs more than twenty or thirty kilograms, maybe seventy or eighty kilograms. How did I carry it here so easily with just one hand?"
He then laughed again, maybe because he was hungry and thinking about eating mutton, so he exploded with strength.
It should be very laborious to dig out a cat's ear hole on the sunny side of the high ground with a sapper's shovel.
Somehow, Huang Yi didn't feel tired. He thought that the gravel under the more than ten centimeters of soil was quite easy to dig. He praised the quality of the engineer shovel and said that he did not spend a high price in vain.
Finally he finished his work and looked at his cell phone. There was still no signal. The time displayed was only after eleven o'clock. He also tried an emergency call, but it didn't work.
Go to sleep! We will see tomorrow. Not only did he sleep with his clothes on, he even put on a helmet. He believed that with this equipment, even if he was attacked by a wild beast, he would not be bitten to death in a short time.
Hehe! If you can't kill me with a bite, all the beasts that attack you will die.
The three fires crackled and crackled several times, and they were burning brightly...
The next day, Huang Yi, who was woken up by the sun, rubbed his sleepy eyes and asked for a moment: "Who am I? Where am I?"
Gradually his consciousness returned to clarity, and Huang Yi realized his situation. He quickly turned on his mobile phone, but alas! There was still no signal.
There is also not so good news, the phone only has one battery left.
Fortunately, I carry the solar power bank with me.
Ever since, Huang Yi took out the solar power bank and put it in the sun.
Then he climbed to the highest point of the highland and looked around. What appeared in the telescope was good scenery but no people.
He stood in the morning breeze and experienced the independent cold autumn for a while. However, he did not become a poet, but looking at this situation, there was no telling whether his bestiality would flourish in the future.
There was no toothpaste or toothbrush in his backpack, so Huang Yi had no other solution. He could only drink a few sips of water and use his fingers to poke and poke, which was better than nothing.
How to fix breakfast? It’s easy to handle. I used an outdoor stainless steel lunch box to cook a full box of mutton soup to fill my stomach.
This lunch box had never been used before and had always been used as a storage box with a first aid kit and some medicines inside.
It plays a big role at this time. In the future, it can not only boil water and make soup, but also be used as a kettle to store water. After all, the sports water cup you carry with you is only 800 ml.
People must not be short of water. The more drinking water you carry with you, the better. With this outdoor lunch box, you can boil water and fill it with water. The time to find the next water source can be extended to at least two days.
"Hey! Why did I forget the orange juice?"
Huang Yi then remembered that there should be a bottle of orange juice in the side pocket of the backpack, and immediately rummaged through it. Sure enough, there was not only a 600 ml bottle of orange juice but also a dozen toffee in the left pocket of the backpack.
"Haha, good intentions are rewarded!"
Huang Yi is a man who loves his wife. Whenever he goes out with his wife, he must carry sugar and orange juice. Because his wife has hypoglycemia, she must drink some orange juice and eat a candy at critical moments.
"With this bottle of orange juice, I can persevere even if I walk for three days without seeing a source of water!"
Huang Yi did not drink the orange juice and use the orange juice bottle to boil water, but planned to save it until when he needed it most.
"What should we do next?"
It is necessary to go south. Huang Yi estimates that it should be autumn on the prairie now.
Why use estimates?
That's because Huang Yi is not sure that the prairie at this moment can be divided into spring, summer, autumn and winter, even though the moment before he entered the fog was the autumn of 2021.
Huang Yi knew how cold the winter on the prairie was. There was no way his equipment could survive the winter, and his fate could be imagined.
In order not to starve to death or freeze to death, we must go south and speed up our pace. It will be troublesome if it starts to snow.
Huang Yi watched the movie "Little Sisters of the Prairie" when he was a child and was deeply impressed. He knew that snowy nights in the prairie were no joke and could really freeze people to death.
Walking 70 to 80 miles in a day is just over a thousand kilometers in a month. He had to pray to the gods and Buddhas in the sky that it would not snow, at least not until Huang Yi found a place to stay.
The next plot is to go south and south. The direction must be correct. Huang Yi's engineer shovel comes with a compass!
There should be no need to be hungry. There are a lot of yellow sheep at this time and they are very fat. Huang Yi not only has a powerful crossbow, but can also use a telescope to observe in advance, so hunting the yellow sheep is as easy as picking out something from a bag.
Even so, Huang Yi does not kill indiscriminately. I only eat one of the three thousand yellow sheep every now and then! Amitabha!
Ten days passed. Huang Yi judged that he should have walked at least three to four hundred kilometers. Unfortunately, he still found no human habitation. Fortunately, it didn't snow.
Fortunately among misfortunes, there are really a lot of yellow sheep, so I can eat mutton every day, but it's a pity that I'm tired of it.
No matter whether it is grilled or boiled in the past two days, it is tasteless. The only purpose of eating at this time is to survive.
During this period, Huang Yi's weight has exceeded 50 kilograms.
no way!
Gotta survive!
In order to keep warm at night, I didn't dare to throw away three yellow sheepskins that had a strange smell, and in case I couldn't hunt animals for a while, I didn't dare to reserve less than twenty kilograms of dried mutton.
If you are worried about not being able to find a water source in a short period of time, you should carry four or five kilograms of boiled water with you.
It's strange that Huang Yi has been marching with heavy loads these past few days, but he doesn't feel tired. On the contrary, he feels full of strength.
Chapter completed!